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A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking is unavailable, but you can change that!

Satire is a kind of preaching. Satire pervades Scripture. Satire treats the foibles of sinners with a less than perfect tenderness. But if a Christian employs satire today, he is almost immediately called to account for his unbiblical behavior. Yet Scripture shows that the central point of some religious controversies is to give offense. When Christ was confronted with ecclesiastical obstinacy...

sins of arrogance that we must confess. But when we receive such rebukes, we must remember that those who deliver them are doing so on the basis of a standard. What standard is it? When they rebuke us for arrogance, are they being arrogant? Arrogance cannot be defined as the necessary result of assuming yourself to be right and the other fellow wrong. For what would happen if we decided that someone else had succumbed to this temptation and was being arrogant? Should we go admonish him? If we do
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